| 19 August 2010

Image: UCAR One of the Primary Models Used by the IPCC As Freeman Dyson said, "The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines." The telescope, the microscope, X-rays and MRIs, etc. Climate modeling software is such a tool, allowing us to make probabilistic estimates about what is likely to happen to our planet's if we do X or Y or Z. And while we can never be 100% sure about the future, our tools are getting more sophisticated (models take more things into account, faster computers allow more simulations to be run, better instruments and satellites allow better inf... Read the full story on TreeHugger